Poly Network

CRITICALEthereum, BSC, Polygon·Improper Access Control·#4 all-time
$611.0M stolenTuesday, August 10, 2021 · 1902 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-10-25

What happened

  • Poly Network, a defi protocol, lost $611.0M on August 10, 2021.

  • The largest of the 127 incidents recorded in 2021: 21% of the $2.87B lost to hacks that year.

  • One other incident was recorded the same day: Punk Protocol ($8.9M).

  • The first of 2 recorded incidents at Poly Network; the next followed in July 2023, $5.0M.

  • Improper Access Control is behind 142 recorded incidents totalling $1.19B; this is the largest of them.

Cite this record

Monitoring Room, "Poly Network hack (2021) — $611.0M stolen", incident record, data: DefiLlama hacks dataset, as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC. https://monitoringroom.com/situation/crypto-hack/poly-network

Other recorded incidents at Poly Network

DefiLlama records 2 separate incidents under this name.

Nearby in the record

Source: DefiLlama · 1317 recorded incidents · data as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC